Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fluttery rhythms of liberated marionettes and the slow-motion gyrations of deep-sea fish. At the top of a first-rate cast, which included Walter Slezak, Martyn Green and Stubby Kaye, was 37-year-old Mickey Rooney, who somehow managed to keep ubiquitous Mickey Rooney out of the act and gave a remarkably apt performance as the wooden boy with the tent-peg nose...
Turning to the free world's businessmen, Black urged: "Your responsibility is a heavy one, for if the private entrepreneur does not come forward when he is given a fair chance, governments will act−and who can then blame them...
...Extension "for at least five years" of the tariff-lowering Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (expiration date: June), which is under hot congressional fire...
...held to a 5% rise. Britain has had a 16% rise in that time, now hopes its "hard pound" policy, expressed in courageously raising the discount rate from 5% to 7%, will finally check inflation, permit Britain to build up the gold and dollar reserves it needs to act as banker for the sterling area. In Asia, Japan has creditably held its inflation since 1953 to 9%, and recently the Bank of Japan, the government's central bank, further tightened up on money by raising the discount rate from...
...longyi (skirt) and gaung baung (pink gauze cap). Said U Tin U, private businessman and government mining adviser: "I am here to woo American miners. I want to convince them of the possibilities of exploitation of my country." He pointed out that Burma's government-sponsored Foreign Investment Act, which is expected to be passed early next year, will open up the country's nationalized lead, coal, zinc, tungsten and tin mines to private operation on a lease from the government. U Tin U himself has applied for the Lone Chang zinc mine, announced that he was willing...